Senior Editor, National Review
Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, and the author of several books, including Founders’ Son, Right Time, Right Place, George Washington on Leadership, What Would the Founders Do?, Gentleman Revolutionary, Rules of Civility, America’s First Dynasty, Alexander Hamilton, American, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington, Way of the WASP, and The Outside Story.
Appellate Division of the NYS Supreme Court, Second Judicial Department
Shareholder & Co-Chair of the Workplace Policy Institute, Littler Mendelson P.C.
Alexander T. MacDonald advises employers on all aspects of the employment and labor landscape, focusing on emerging legislation and regulation. He has extensive experience advising businesses on worker classification, arbitration, the administrative and regulatory process, and the future of work. He frequently writes, publishes, and speaks on these subjects. His work has been cited by scholars and appellate courts. He is a recognized voice for the management perspective.
Alexander is a co-chair of the Workplace Policy Institute (WPI) team. With WPI, he advises employers on legislative, administrative, and regulatory developments at the state and federal level. He advocates for employers in the regulatory and administrative process. He also helps employers protect their businesses by understanding and anticipating cutting-edge legal developments.
Alexander also has extensive experience in traditional labor law. He represents management in all aspects of labor-management relations, including unfair labor practice charges, grievance arbitrations, representation elections, contract negotiations, and related litigation, including litigation in the U.S. courts of appeals.
Before joining Littler, Alexander served as the director, future of work, for a major technology company. He also worked in a national labor and employment law firm and a major public-sector general counsel’s office. He was a law clerk to the senior judges in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
He is also a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He served in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. In law school, he graduated first in his class
Of Counsel, Fisher & Phillips, LLP
Greg Grisham has over 25 years of successful experience counseling and representing employers in all aspects of workplace law in Tennessee and across the United States.
He has helped employers avoid claims, charges and lawsuits with a focus on preventative practices. Preventative practices include counseling in situations involving discipline, termination, demotion, promotion and other workplace changes in the terms and conditions of employment, harassment investigations, wage and hour compliance, FMLA Compliance, Reasonable Accommodation assessment, supervisor training and the review of employment policies and procedures. In addition, Greg's practice includes the representation of business entities subject to Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act in Public Accommodation cases.
Greg has successfully litigated hundreds of administrative charges, employment lawsuits, and arbitration demands on behalf of employers, including federal and state law claims alleging discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, defamation, invasion of privacy, breach of contract, wage and hour violations and ERISA violations, among others. He also represents employers before the National Labor Relations Board in unfair labor practice proceedings. He represents employers in the enforcement of post-employment restrictive covenants such as non-compete, non-solicitation and non-disclosure agreements and related trade secret litigation. Greg's practice also includes the defense of property owners and property management companies in federal and state Housing Discrimination charges and litigation. He also advises Tennessee Public Charter Schools on education law and workplace compliance matters.
Greg has extensive experience working with insurance carriers and their insureds in the defense of EPLI claims. He is a regular speaker at public seminars on workplace law issues and has authored numerous articles on a variety of labor and employment law related topics.
Greg holds an AV Preeminent Peer Review rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been selected for inclusion in Mid-South Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers in America for Employment Litigation-Management side. Greg was elected as a 2016 Fellow to the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and has been selected to the “Top 20 Lawyers in Traditional Labor & Employment Law” list in conjunction with Human Resource Executive Magazine and LawDragon’s 2017 and 2018 “Most Powerful Employment Attorneys” lists and specialty guides. Greg was also named a Fellow in the American Bar Foundation in 2017.
District Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP
Steven Krane joined Proskauer upon his graduation from New York University School of Law in 1981, taking a year off in 1984-85 to serve as law clerk to Judge Judith S. Kaye of the New York Court of Appeals. He became a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department in 1989, and is the chair of the firm’s Law Firm Advisory Practice Group, concentrating in the field of legal ethics and professional responsibility, while continuing to represent commercial clients in a broad range of civil litigation matters.
Steven represents law firms and individual lawyers in a variety of professional matters, including rendering opinions and counseling them on a daily basis on a broad range of professional matters including conflicts of interest, client confidentiality, cross-border legal practice issues, partnership disputes, and internal investigations. In addition, he defends law firms in litigated proceedings involving legal malpractice and other civil claims; represents individual lawyers before grievance and disciplinary committees; and assists lawyers in disputes concerning admission to the Bar. He has served as a litigation consultant and expert witness testifying on a variety of issues such as conflicts of interest, litigation conduct, legal malpractice, billing disputes, and solicitation of clients by lawyers leaving a law firm.
Steven is among the nation’s leaders in developing and interpreting the rules governing the professional conduct of lawyers. He is chair of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, and has served on that committee since 2004. He has led the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct, and its predecessor, since 1995. That committee is responsible for formulating the ethical rules governing New York lawyers. He served as a member of the NYSBA Committee on Professional Ethics for four years (1990-94), and spent nine of the 11 years from 1985 to 1996 associated in various capacities with the Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics of the New York City Bar, including three years as the chair (1993-96). He was recently appointed by Chief Judge Kaye as co-chair of the New York Judicial Institute on Professionalism in the Law. He served as vice-chair of the NYSBA Special Committee on the Law Governing Firm Structure and peration (the “MacCrate Committee”), and chaired the successor to that committee, the Special Committee on Multidisciplinary Practice.
Steven has had a distinguished career as a bar leader outside of the field of legal ethics as well, most notably serving as President of the NYSBA in 2001-02; the youngest person to hold that post. He coordinated the efforts of the organized bar in responding to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; initiated the NYSBA’s successful lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission challenging the application of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act’s privacy provisions to the legal profession (serving as counsel to the NYSBA in the District of Columbia Circuit and as a member of the ABA’s Gramm-Leach-Bliley Task Force); and created and now chairs the Student Loan Assistance for the Public Interest program, which provides grants to lawyers in public interest jobs to help them defray their educational debts. Active in the community, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of the John Jay Homestead (Katonah, NY) and a Trustee of the New York Bar Foundation.
Steven is active in the development of law and policy relating to cross-border legal practice, and serves as one of the principal negotiators for the ABA and NYSBA in their efforts to achieve agreements with foreign governments to liberalize restrictions on lawyers engaged in international practice. In that regard, he chairs the NYSBA Special Committee on Crossborder Legal Practice; is a vice-chair of the NYSBA Section on International Law and Practice; and Liaison to International Bar Associations; and is an Advisor to the ABA Task Force on International Trade in Legal Services.
Steven served as a Hearing Panel Chair for both the Departmental Disciplinary Committee for the First Judicial Department (1996-99) and the Committee on Grievances of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1995-2000). He currently serves as a Special Referee for the Grievance Committee for the Ninth Judicial District (Second Department) in New York.
For several years, Steven taught legal ethics at Columbia University School of Law as a member of its adjunct faculty. He continues to be a frequent lecturer on ethics, and has written extensively on issues of professional responsibility.
America 250: The New York Lawyers - The Impact of Hamilton, Jay, & Morris on the American Founding
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